From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs pretest 22.0.90 Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2009 23:57:21 -0500 Message-ID: <87wsc91ln2.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> References: <87myd5vka8.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1233550623 19790 80.91.229.12 (2 Feb 2009 04:57:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 04:57:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 02 05:58:17 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LTqsu-0002Vw-SO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Feb 2009 05:58:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39830 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LTqrc-0003XU-7y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 01 Feb 2009 23:56:52 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LTqrX-0003XG-Oz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Feb 2009 23:56:47 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LTqrW-0003Ww-Me for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Feb 2009 23:56:47 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=34745 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LTqrW-0003Wt-Eg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Feb 2009 23:56:46 -0500 Original-Received: from cyd.mit.edu ([18.115.2.24]:59050) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LTqrU-0001a4-RJ; Sun, 01 Feb 2009 23:56:44 -0500 Original-Received: by cyd.mit.edu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4211D57E18A; Sun, 1 Feb 2009 23:57:21 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 02 Feb 2009 06:19:24 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:108563 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> Emacs pretest 23.0.90 is now available for download via FTP, at the >> following location: >> >> http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/emacs-23.0.90.tar.gz > > Thanks. > > But ".90"? boy, that _is_ ambitious (or exceedingly optimistic)! For the Emacs 22 pretest, at least, we also counted from .90. If we need more than ten of these, the version numbers will continue into 22.0.100, and so forth. (I recall a ludicrously long thread on emacs-devel about numbering the pretests; one of the proposals, if memory serves, involved using negative numbers ;-)